Master Gardeners establish remote weather station

A year in the planning, a project to install a remote weather station at Jacobs Well is now complete. The station is wholly owned and operated by the Hays County Master Gardeners, in cooperation with Hays County Parks.

Master Gardener Ron Titus coordinated the effort with Jessica Wollin, Education and Outreach Coordinator at Jacobs Well for Hays County Parks and Natural Resources, and her manager, Jay Taylor.

“HCMG owns a WiFi extender device,” said Titus. “This is a critical component of the HCMG weather monitoring system because it extends the Jacobs Well WiFi network to the HCMG greenhouse so that we can broadcast the weather station readings across the internet via Weather Underground.”